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North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
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North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
The internet version says 24 missiles and 192 warheads. The verified version is smaller — and still beyond most nations' entire arsenals. Walk through...
No missile ever touched it. No fighter ever caught it. And still a third of the fleet was destroyed — by the only force...
The Soviets built it, SALT II banned it by name, and Moscow gave it up. In 2021, China flew it again — with a...
The Harpoon's evolution ends up carrying a lesson bigger than one missile. It was born for a mission that vanished, remade by a single...
Every pilot's account begins with the push — a jet that could out-climb its own weight, straight up. As the last F-15Cs head for...
Ordered in 2014, commissioned in 2026: the dozen-year clock on America's newest submarines, and the two-yard bottleneck quietly setting the fleet's size.
The Navy didn't want them. The fleet mocked them. Then six of the little carriers found themselves alone in the path of Japan's main...
On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project detonated a plutonium...
Modern American weapons programs have a reputation: the Ford carrier ran billions over, the Zumwalt was cut from 32 ships to three, the F-35...